31 July 2013 Last updated at 12:28 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Information Minister Dorreya Sharaf el-Din: “To ensure civil peace and people’s safety, the cabinet has decided to take all necessary measures” Egypt’s military-backed government has ordered police to end sit-ins by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi [...]

31 July 2013 Last updated at 10:55 ET The Home Office says it wants to combat rogue investigators Operating as an unlicensed private detective is to be illegal in England and Wales, the home secretary has said. The Home Office said it wanted to “ensure rigorous standards” in an industry where “rogue investigators” had been [...]

31 July 2013 Last updated at 13:23 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. In court Daniel Pelka’s emaciated body was likened by a doctor to that of a concentration camp victim A mother and her partner have been found guilty of murdering her four-year-old son, who had been beaten and starved. [...]

30 July 2013 Last updated at 16:28 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Lord Howell: “There are large uninhabited areas in the North East where there’s plenty of room for fracking” A Tory peer has apologised for “any offence caused” after he said fracking should take place in “the North East” [...]

30 July 2013 Last updated at 13:20 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Spare room benefit claimant Charlotte Carmichael: “We will have to appeal” Disabled families have lost a court challenge to social housing benefit cuts for residents with spare bedrooms in England, Wales and Scotland. The High Court ruled the [...]

30 July 2013 Last updated at 16:06 ET Bradley Manning, the US Army private who leaked thousands of classified documents, has been convicted of espionage but not of aiding the enemy. Pte Manning, 25, has been found guilty of 20 charges in total, including theft and computer fraud. He had admitted leaking the documents to [...]

29 July 2013 Last updated at 15:04 ET Pictures from the scene showed mangled wreckage At least 40 people have been injured, four of them seriously, in a collision between two trains in western Switzerland. The crash happened in Granges-pres-Marnand, about 50km (30 miles) south-west of the capital, Bern. Reports say the regional trains collided [...]

29 July 2013 Last updated at 09:45 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Pope Francis made the comments on his return flight from Brazil Pope Francis has said gay people should not be marginalised but integrated into society. Speaking to reporters on a flight back from Brazil, he reaffirmed the Roman [...]

29 July 2013 Last updated at 07:37 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Dr Chand Nagpaul: “Patients are not receiving the right advice when they call 111″ A major provider of the NHS non-emergency telephone service in England is seeking to pull [...]

28 July 2013 Last updated at 14:22 ET Caroline Criado-Perez (right) says the abuse started after her successful bank note campaign A man has been arrested after a feminist campaigner was deluged on Twitter with abuse and threats of rape, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The 21-year-old was detained earlier in the Manchester area on suspicion [...]